[newbie] Goodbye, And Thanks for All the Help

2004-10-04 Thread The Other
nks for all the assistance you've given me over the past year and a half. It's been fun and educational. All the Best in your endeavors, "The Other" Stephen Stubbs Champaign, IL USA Want to buy your Pack or Serv

Re: [newbie] Sound card not working

2004-09-11 Thread The Other
Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: If you want the best quality sound drivers with the most features, I highly recommend you go to opensound.com and download the drivers for your sound card. OSS is superior to Alsa. Wha? All this time people have been telling me the opposite, 'OSS is

Re: [newbie] Converting Partition from Ext2 to Ext3

2004-09-11 Thread The Other
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:28:43 +1000, Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ext3 is just ext2 plus journalling, so you don't need to reformat to convert. I presume that MCC just did a tune2fs command to add journalling and adjusted your fstab file. man tune2fs will tell you more. Thanks Bri

[newbie] Converting Partition from Ext2 to Ext3

2004-09-10 Thread The Other
s my Linux From Scratch partition and I'm booted into it right now. Everything seems okay, but I'm concerned about my first crash and if the Ext3 recovery programs will work properly. Am I okay er, let me rephrase that... is my Ext3 partition okay? GRIN "

[newbie] Modem, PPP, ISPs, and Wvdial

2004-07-25 Thread The Other
Hello John, Maybe your problem is with the ISP and the login prompts. I haven't had time yet to work out my problem using Linux From Scratch 5.1, Wvdial, and my ISP; but here's what the ISP did for me to assist: - Instead of trying to login at the prompt, try just starting up ppp. I

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-12 Thread The Other
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:31:19 +0100, John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In KPPP under modem, there is a line termination field with 3 choices. Hello John, When KPPP was giving me fits, I went to WVdial. That seemed to work okay. You'll have to open a terminal window and then log in

Re: [newbie] Debian's Apt-Get or Redhat's RPM ???

2004-06-12 Thread The Other
leting those files if you wished to uninstall that particular application. Obviously, this utility/program wouldn't be able to deal with dependency issues. Now to determine how important it is for me to manually deal with dependency issues or use a package manager. Hmmm Tha

Re: [newbie] Debian's Apt-Get or Redhat's RPM ???

2004-06-06 Thread The Other
On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 22:36:21 +0800, wrote: The Other wrote: Suggestions for a package manager? The down side is that I have a 56Kb Modem to use to get the updates. If its apt-get compared to plain jane rpm, there is no contest, apt-get wins hands down. If it was between apt-get and urpmX then

Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels

2004-06-01 Thread The Other
.6.5-1.tmb, including it's lilo entry, I'd su to root and type 'urpme kernel-tmb-2.6.5-1.tmb.5mdk-1-1mdk' (use copy'n paste to avoid typos). Tom, I know this method will work if you installed a kernel rpm with urpmi. But will it also work if you compi

[newbie] Info Info

2004-05-25 Thread The Other
nd Space key back to where you were), but I finally feel like I'm making progress with the Linux command documentation. For What It's Worth The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrake

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-24 Thread The Other
GP card and Video Shadowing. The G100 was the start of Matrox's AGP line, and could have been the victum of an early bug. The G400 card seems to be very stable. Regards, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-24 Thread The Other
hadowing on, they made no difference. I still had an unstable Mandrake system. So I went back to the 1998 version of the Award BIOS that came with my motherboard. I won't be changing BIOSes for this test. The Other Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-23 Thread The Other
it alone. IRQ 10 is really the first high priority IRQ you can expect to get exclusive access to. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Opera

2004-05-22 Thread The Other
On Fri, 21 May 2004 13:25:33 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it me or is Opera, for mail and web browsing, looking better and better? It uses far less memory and is much faster while running on Linux. Anyone else have any feeling on it? FWIW, I like and use i

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-22 Thread The Other
Oh, forgot to mention the other BIOS settings you may want to check: PNP OS Installed (or may be called Plug'n'Play OS Installed)-- set it to NO And to avoid some problems with your Printer being automatically detected and installed: Parallel Port Mode-- set it to ECP+EPP (or at le

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-22 Thread The Other
On Fri, 21 May 2004 12:09:24 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 08:44, The Other wrote: My solution was to turn off *all* ROM Shadowing in the BIOS. Windows doesn't mind the ROM Shadowing, but Linux wants to control all of the system's memory. W

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-20 Thread The Other
HTH, I know the frustration. It took me over 4 months to figure this solution out. Sympathies. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-20 Thread The Other
rol of all memory. I was getting inconsistent problems during the install of Mandrake, and then file corruption problems after the install when I had Video ROM shadowing enabled in the BIOS. HTH The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from Ma

Re: [newbie] How to get IceWM 1.2.13 shown in XDM, GDM, KDM login screen ???

2004-04-28 Thread The Other
another workspace to work in. But I'd really like to have this version of IceWM available as a choice in the drop down box on the graphical login screen. Ideas? TIA, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] For Opera lovers...

2004-04-28 Thread The Other
at 14. normal. in black. Regards, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] MS: We know we suck, and we don't really care.

2004-04-24 Thread The Other
ny to switch operating systems. The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2004-04-19 Thread The Other
o fix this problem? Thanks, The Other --- Forwarded message --- From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:18:50 +0200 (CEST) This is the Postfix program at host smtp1.mandrax.org. I'

Re: [newbie] Mandrake RPM for XPde?

2004-04-03 Thread The Other
e PC side and have never developed a liking for icons in a file manager system. I'm using Midnight Commander for the file management duties.) The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Jack and Ardour

2004-03-31 Thread The Other
et, but get on the Linux Audio User mailing list and post the question there. The website to get subscribed is: http://www.music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user/ HTH, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeS

Re: [newbie] strangness with PPP & modem

2004-01-25 Thread The Other
handshake due to 'kppp' stopping the handshake process at 30 seconds. I set the 'kppp' waiting to connect parameter (or whatever it's called) to 60 seconds and the problem went away. HTH, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux porblems.

2003-12-30 Thread The Other
m auto allocate. That time it stopped at the point that it stopped the first time. Hello Russ, Have you turned off all Shadow RAM in your BIOS? If not, try that. I had irratic install problems when my video ROM was being shadowed in RAM. HTH The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandra

[newbie] Where's the Kernel Source from a Source RPM

2003-12-28 Thread The Other
did the source code go??? What directory was it placed in??? Are all those files hidden and 'ls -l' won't list them??? And in what language are these source files, C perhaps? As a second question, is there any way you can open up an RPM and find out where it will place the f

Re: [newbie] Solved-- Gnome 2.2 Documentation System broken

2003-12-27 Thread The Other
Nevertheless, when I went to Documentation>Help it was opened by Galeon, not by Mozilla... The documentation you want must be around here /usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/Starter.html/index.html Or you can reinstall Galeon again! JM 12/27/03 To: JM and All I had removed Galeon (and Mozilla). That

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.2 Documentation System broken

2003-12-24 Thread The Other
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:28:30 -0200, Josenildo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I switched to Opera 7.23 as my web browser, I removed the other HTML reading programs such as Mozilla, Netscape, Evolution, and Galeon(spelling?). Now when I use the Gnome 2.2 menus and try to op

[newbie] Gnome 2.2 Documentation System broken

2003-12-23 Thread The Other
12/23/03 Hello All, When I switched to Opera 7.23 as my web browser, I removed the other HTML reading programs such as Mozilla, Netscape, Evolution, and Galeon(spelling?). Now when I use the Gnome 2.2 menus and try to open the HowTo's in HTML format (under the Documentation menu), no

[newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23

2003-12-21 Thread The Other
from Mark Schenk (of which there is one at the Opera web site as well), but the concept of 'accesspoints', 'views', 'contacts' to sort out known emails from junk/spam, and treating your email as a database is intriquing. Has anyone familiar with The Bat! looked into M

Re: [newbie] Modem troubles

2003-12-10 Thread The Other
unately ;-) I missed the question. I use a SBLive! Value card with the ALSA drivers. Make sure you have opened all of your mixers and volume controls available under your desktop environment and increase the volume levels. Most of the mixers and volume controls have turned down the playback sou

Re: [newbie] Solved-- Setting the Time (I think)

2003-12-07 Thread The Other
hange the default settings on how often it checks for the time. Any ideas where the documentation may be found? Thanks, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Setting the Time

2003-12-06 Thread The Other
ons for a comparable program in Linux? Thanks All, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] OT: The 'Original' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2003-11-30 Thread The Other
those MP3s? Each episode was around 30 minutes. Wouldn't those be 10MB files at least? The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] IBM Tutorials

2003-11-27 Thread The Other
11/27/03 It's probably been mentioned before, but on the IBM developerWorks website, they have some excellent Linux tutorials. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/views/linux/tutorials.jsp 55 tutorials were listed (if I counted correctly.) Some of them are for the LPI Certification 101 (relea

Re: [newbie] Wine and Memory

2003-11-15 Thread The Other
at the same time, you might need to close one of them before you start Money." All you can do is click the "Okay" button to close this box. Then the terminal window that had the ! Not modal yet (above) line returns to the prompt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Micorsoft Money]$ ==

[newbie] Wine and Memory

2003-11-15 Thread The Other
t the same out of memory error. Is my solution to get more memory? Thanks, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Modem Connection Secure ???

2003-11-08 Thread The Other
ely depending on the installation. Question: Do I have a security problem doing things this way? (While connected to the Internet, I do have a SuperUser terminal session running that is managing the WVdial program.) TIA, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandr

Re: [newbie] Gramofile

2003-10-27 Thread The Other
lug the DVD into one arm of the Y cable , and the CD/Tape into the other arm. Now you don't have to reconnect anything when you want to record from the DVD or the CD/Tape. Using a Y cable you may experience a little signal loss, but you simply increase the volume level on that input source.

Re: [newbie] Gramofile

2003-10-27 Thread The Other
hysical audio files (WAV). So when working with VIP files, the editing can be non-linear and non-destructive. You're only working with pointers and not the actual physical audio file. Anyone know if there are comparable software programs for Linux? I haven't had time to check into

Re: [newbie] How 2 Install ESS Modem...

2003-10-24 Thread The Other
have and if they have a driver for it. They offer a free driver that is limited to 14.4Kb. This will allow you to determine if you have a working driver. You can then upgrade to the full V.92 driver for $14.95 USD. Regards, The Other. On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:37:24 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: &g

Re: [newbie] caching up audio files from and external source

2003-10-24 Thread The Other
und & midi software for Linux I've found so far is: http://www.linux-sound.org/one-page.html Keep us posted of your endeavors in sound. ;) The Other. > >On Friday 24 October 2003 12:03 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > > > >>Can you cache up audio files f

Re: [newbie] MDK9.1 on P100/32Mbyte

2003-10-23 Thread The Other
. I restart the computer, do all the file system fixes suggested during bootup, and everything comes back fine in X Windows, running the Gnome desktop.) Hope this Helps, "The Other" Stephen Stubbs Champaign, IL USA On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:57:15 +0200 Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROT

[newbie] Mozilla Mail dropping the POP connection

2003-10-15 Thread The Other
ssage.) Mozilla internet browser has no trouble finding the live dialup connection and I can surf away. What setting in Mozilla Mail (or in KPPP) do I need to set to avoid this problem when in the Mail system? Thanks All, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Disabling BIOS Shadow RAM and Installing MDK 9.1

2003-10-13 Thread The Other
.5GB master drive, and Maxtor 30GB slave drive. Both IDE drives. Power supply is Antec 300W, model SL300S HP DeskJet 540C printer. Need anything else? TIA, The Other. - Original Message - From: "Charlie M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For any information about the system th

[newbie] Disabling BIOS Shadow RAM and Installing MDK 9.1

2003-10-13 Thread The Other
10/13/03 Hello All, from The Other A few of you may remember I've been trying to get a stable installation of Mandrake 9.1 since May. Thanks to my niece for sending me a Debian distro 3.x with documentation. I may have figured out what was going wrong all this time. The Debian document

[newbie] Maxtor Hard Drive Dual-Slave Jumper Setting?

2003-09-30 Thread The Other
drive. It came set with a jumper on (top pin 1 to bottom pin 1), and a second jumper on (top pin 2 to top pin 3). For the dual Slave mode, I'm currently using a jumper on (top pin 2 to top pin 3), and a jumper on (bottom pin 4 to bottom pin 5). Is this correct? Thanks All, "The O

Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?

2003-09-18 Thread The Other
09/18/03 Low-level formatting: 1) Go to the drive manufacturer's website and get the toolset for your drive. The low-level formatting utility should be in the toolset. 2) Run all the other diagnostics on the toolset first before doing the low-level format. If it turns out you need to r

[newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions

2003-09-06 Thread The Other
09/06/03 Hello All, Perhaps the problems I was having installing MDK 9.1 was due to my hardware being below minimum specs for 9.1 My current hardware: ASUS P2B motherboard with 350MHz PII and 128MB Ram So I have two options: 1) locate a previous distribution of MDK that will work with this

Re: [newbie] Line-in problems?

2003-08-31 Thread The Other
o: "Newbie List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 12:51 AM Subject: [newbie] Line-in problems? > Okay, I've now got a small cassette deck with true line out, and a cable with > R/L RCA jacks on one end, and a 1/8th inch mini-jack (2 bands) on the ot

Re: [newbie] Converting sound files? (recording from cassette, pt2)

2003-08-27 Thread The Other
08/27/03 The left channel is by default the LEFT/MONO channel. If all your music showed up in the left channel only, then you weren't using a stereo cable somewhere in your connections to the IN jack on the computer. Check again to make certain the Left and Right OUTs on the boom box are going i

Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette

2003-08-26 Thread The Other
08/26/03 Ronald, See if you can find a cassette boom box or other cassette player that has left and right PHONO or RCA outputs. Then buy the appropriate cable to connect the cassette player to the Line In of your sound card. That cable might be a Left and Right RCA (or PHONO) to 1/8" mini Stere

Re: [newbie] fstab, windows folders and permissions

2003-08-04 Thread The Other
will be 777. Am I correct? You might want to look at: www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~mader/FSTAB-Tuning.html May help. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] MIDI: GM, GS, and XG

2003-08-02 Thread The Other
ument. Don't worry about Channel 2. It's used to send MIDI control information and is not 'played'. Leave it alone. Channel 11 was using Bank 113. Also not an XG standard bank. Change it to Bank 0. This will use the SynthBass1 instrument. Channel 15 was using Bank

Re: [newbie] Rosegarden install and Yamaha .mid file load

2003-07-29 Thread The Other
07/29/03 Hello John, Would you consider emailing me one of your Yamaha MIDI files? I'd like to see if I can get it to play correctly under a Windows MIDI sequencer program (Cakewalk). That might help me to tell you how the instruments are arranged in the Yamaha file. My email address is: [E

Re: [newbie] Rosegarden install and Yamaha .mid file load

2003-07-27 Thread The Other
MIDI sequencer to resend the MIDI data back to the Yamaha and let the Yamaha play the music? That would allow the music to be played now for your daughter while you're working on the *all* computer solution to playing the Yamaha MIDI files. Something to consider. The Other PS: Sorry I h

[newbie] Solved-- Mandrake 9.1 Installed once, then never again

2003-07-20 Thread The Other
or my ASUS P2B motherboard. It should be version 1002. If anyone has a copy, please email me off list. I'd like to get a copy of it. Regards, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes

2003-07-16 Thread The Other
SoundFont to replace a poor sounding Acoustic Piano with a better sounding Grand Piano. When you're working with MIDI, you have great control over the final sound of the piece. Regards, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Partitions, File Systems, and Kernel not installing

2003-07-15 Thread The Other
07/15/03 Hello All, from The Other Dennis, the CDs arrived. Thank you. 3 hours of 37 different combinations of installing, and the Kernel package failed to install each time. Same results with the replacement CD1 and the original distro CD1. Obviuously, my problem isn't with the CD

Re: [newbie] glibc file is bad on Install CD1, need help to replacethe disk.

2003-07-10 Thread The Other
help you" I addressed this post to the Newbie List realizing that those members unable to assist me would disregard the help request, and that those members who could assist would respond to me in a private email (of which one person so far has.) Regards, The Other Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] glibc file is bad on Install CD1, need help to replace the disk.

2003-07-09 Thread The Other
the Install CD1 disk. I think I'm seeing a scratch or nick near the outer edge in one place (probably the place where glibc-2.3.1-10mdk.i586 lives.) So the only idea I have left is to try a replacment disk. Any other ideas? Thanks for listening, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or

Re: hitch hikers guide... WAS: Re: [newbie] Window$ free -follow-up

2003-07-05 Thread The Other
07/05/03 Hello Stephen, I don't know. When I get the drive back so I can reinstall Bamboo, I'll be looking for the Linux version of Hack, or NetHack if it was officially called that. Do you think playing Hack was ever intelligent? Addictive yes, but intelligent? ;) The Othe

Re: [newbie] Window$ free -follow -up

2003-07-05 Thread The Other
play the .z5 file format? Send the directions to me offline, if you like. And since I'm still waiting for the return of my hard drive to reinstall Bamboo, would you also have directions for a Windows machine to read a .z5 file format? All the thanks, The Other Ronald J. Hall wrot

Re: [newbie] Package errors during install

2003-07-04 Thread The Other
low level format the WD drive at this time, so I'm waiting for the Maxtor's return and will dedicate the Maxtor solely to Bamboo. Thanks for the confidence vote in Western Digital drives. I guess my suggestion to Tobi is still to try another drive to install Bamboo to. Regards, The

Re: [newbie] Package errors during install

2003-07-03 Thread The Other
s working properly. What type of hard drive are you installing to? Perhaps if you selected another manufacturer's drive? Regards, The Other Tobias Mueller wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.1 at one of our servers. Unfortunataly when it comes to the install of the packages,

[newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions for Music Workstation

2003-06-30 Thread The Other
oints and partitiona desirable? Thanks All, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability

2003-06-24 Thread The Other
and the concern. The Other. Erylon Hines wrote: > > I had the same alarm bells going off. The ONTRACK disk overlay and Linux have > always been incompatible (or so I thought). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Sound Blaster Live! MIDI input/output under Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread The Other
nd applications. Is there a configuration file I should be aware of? I've not learned about config files under Linux yet. A tutorial on how to get MIDI through a MIDI port working would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandr

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Myriad's Harmony Assistant (Windows Version) Anyone Using????

2003-06-13 Thread The Other
06/13/03 Hello All, Anyone running Myriad's program Harmony Assistant under Mandrake 9.1? I would expect some Windows Emulation program is necessary. I'm looking into Wine. I have a Sound Blaster Live! Value sound card. Anyone with experience in this setup? Thank you, The Othe

Re: [newbie] Ogg/Vorbis and Mandrake 9.1 * SOLVED the Player *

2003-06-08 Thread The Other
es and played it without any problems. For a second test, I used XMMS on 'Lepidoptera.ogg' by Epoq. No Problem. Anne, Femme Fatale; it looks like the wait for an Ogg/Vorbis player is now over. XMMS is doing the job. (Unless you had some other type of a player in mind, then pardon

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Money Managing program, must import Microsoft Money files

2003-06-08 Thread The Other
how to get it to track loan payments. Does MoneyDance handle loans? The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Where should I go first?

2003-06-08 Thread The Other
ve a SB Live! Value card. When I'd first heard the suggestion that all the mixers set the volume values to 0, I went through the ALSA mixer and the KDE mixer. Besides the Master Volume setting, you *must* set the PCM value to a high value. So I max out (100% volume) the PCM and go 90% on t

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Thread The Other
ple, a version of Windows is probably better since Windows development has evolved to make a desktop that is as human proof as possible. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Suggestions for Money Managing program, must import Microsoft Money files

2003-06-07 Thread The Other
06/07/03 Hello All, I would like to migrate my Microsoft Money 95 files to Linux. I've already exported the files from Money 95 into the Quicken for Windows file format, .qif Suggestions on a comparable Linux program to Import those files? TIA The Other Want to buy your Pack or Ser

[newbie] KMail and Importing Outlook Express 5 address lists

2003-06-07 Thread The Other
06/07/03 Hello All, Anyway to import Outlook Express 5 addresses into KMail? I exported the Outlook Express 5 address book as AddrBook.wab Can I now Import it into KMail? TIA The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Recording Audio from Cassettes

2003-06-07 Thread The Other
ey might appear on the > > recording. Reading in another email there was a reference to a recording engineer who was very impressed with the quality of the Ogg audio format. Here's the URL: http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5847717353.html I'll be looking into Ogg myself based on his

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 bootup, 'acpi' failed

2003-06-06 Thread The Other
a 'man' page by executing 'man *program/command*' What I've yet to figure out is HOW TO GET OUT OF 'MAN' !([EMAIL PROTECTED] [I'd be happy to 'man acpi' if I could get out of the man pages.] What is the special keystroke sequence to gracefully exit t

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives "Solved"

2003-06-04 Thread The Other
/mnt/win_c" followed by "mount > /mnt/win_c". Do the same with the other drives. Adolfo, Adding 'umask=0' as you suggested, then unmounting and remounting the drives solved the problem. I did not need to try the 'user' suggestion. Thanks to Everyone fo

Re: [newbie] Is it OK to use KWrite as a text file editor?

2003-06-03 Thread The Other
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 07:56 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > It's as safe as anything. But just using it as a text editor - > well, you might want to consider using kedit, gedit, gxedit or kate > - but hey, to each their own... Thanks for the tips. I haven't tried any text editors yet, or any of the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-03 Thread The Other
06/03/03 Hello Stephen, > SAMBA is for networking, not for localised file mounting/browsing. The only 'networking' I do is by 56K modem to the Internet. Do I have any reason to have SAMBA and/or NFS installed? If not, I'll remove the packages. Thanks, The Other Want t

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-03 Thread The Other
ing problem I'm having as a 'user' that I don't have as a 'SuperUser'? File Permissions are still a tricky issue for me, coming from single user desktop environments. Is there some way to make each Window drive share-able on all files and all directories with all user

[newbie] Is it OK to use KWrite as a text file editor?

2003-06-03 Thread The Other
06/03/03 Is it safe to use KWrite as text file editor? Or does it append characters to the file that would cause problems? The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-03 Thread The Other
On Monday 02 June 2003 10:14 pm, The Other wrote: > 6/02/03 > > Hello Aldofo, > > > Mount it as a vfat file system. Here is my /etc/fstab entry for > > the fat drive: > > > > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat > > iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 >

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-03 Thread The Other
Type to change it to something else, the very first prompt I get is a warning that all my data will be lost.I chicken out right there. So how can I change the FAT32 drives to VFAT without loosing the data? The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mandrake Software Services updates and getting booted from a Mirror Site

2003-06-01 Thread The Other
ection 4 is worth it's weight in gold telling you were to find the configuration files and what's in them. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mandrake Control Center 9.1 and URPMIs

2003-05-29 Thread The Other
d, but being able to interact with others is better. :) The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com